On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Several American sailors climbed aboard the German submarine U-505, focused on saving it from sinking into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They did not know if the Nazi submariners who dove ...

"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," admitted Winston Churchill at the close ...

Accidents involving toilets typically only involve personal embarrassment, and rarely are they the cause behind the sinking of a specialized hunter-killer submarine. That's precisely what happened, ...

Submarines were key for Allied and Axis forces throughout World War II. At the war's onset, Germany's fleet of U-boat submarines created a distinct advantage for the Nazi's Kriegsmarine.According to ...

There is a 95-year-old man living in Orange, Texas, who is the last living person to have seen the U-656, a World War II German submarine. There is another man from Scanlon, 61 years old, who is a ...

A study reveals that the German Navy’s persistence in a direct attack tactic, instead of massive long-range bombardment, deprived the U-boat campaign of an effectiveness that could have significantly ...

Researchers discovered the wreck of a World War II-era submarine off the coast of Norway this year. The HMS Thistle was a British sub that sank after being hit by a German vessel in 1940. Researchers ...

In the dark days of World War II, the secretive staff at a large building on Nebraska Avenue NW in Washington kept a scoreboard of its success. Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. Navy, ...